Abolitionists & Abolition Groups


Abolitionists - North American

Abigail Adams            (1744-1818) 
John Adams                (1735-1826)
John Quincy Adams   (1767-1848)
Bronson Alcott           (1799-1881)
Louisa May Alcott     (1832-1888)
William Allen             (1770-1843)  Quaker 
Gamaliel Bailey          (1807-1859)  Publisher
Anthony Benezet        (1713-1784)  Quaker
John Bingham, Jayhawker and Senator 
George Brown (Canadian)
Elizabeth Margaret Chandler writer and journalist, columnist.
Ward Chipman (Canadian)
David Einhorn (rabbi)
Friedrich Hecker (German 48er, American Radical Republican) 
Gustav Koerner (German American)
James H. Lane  (Senator) 
Hart Leavitt  Underground Railroad operator, Massachusetts[36]
Joshua Leavitt  editor of the abolitionist newspaper The Emancipator
Roger Hooker Leavitt  Underground Railroad operator, Massachusetts[37]
Theodore Parker  (1810–1860), Unitarian minister and abolitionist whose words inspired speeches by Abraham Lincoln and later by Martin Luther King, Jr. ("The arc of the moral universe is long...")
Francis Daniel Pastorius (German-American)
James Shepherd Pike  journalist
Lysander Spooner (lawyer)

John Ton (Dutch-born American)
Austin Willey   (Newspaper editor)
Henry Wilson   (American Vice President)
John Woolman  (1720-1782)  Quaker


Black Abolitionists - North American 

Richard Allen          (1760-1831)   Former slave, writer, educator, founder of A.M.E. Church)
James Presley Ball  (1824-1904)  Photographer, businessman
Henry Bibb             (1815-1845)  (American/Canadian)  Publisher Voice of the Fugitive newspaper

William Wells Brown  (1814-1884)  ex-slave lecturer, novelist, playwright, historian
Mary Ann Shadd Cary  (1823-1893)  publisher Provincial Freeman newspaper (Canadian)
Peter H. Clark   (1829-1925)  Ohio educator
Samuel Cornish  (1795-1858)  Minister, publisher, journalist
Ellen and William Craft  (famous runaway slave couple, 1848)  Lectured, Went to England 
Thomas Dalton  (1794-1833)  With wife Lucy, activists in Massacusetts education and abolition societies
Martin Delany  (1812-1885)  Writer and physician (attended Harvard Medical school)
Frederick Douglass   (1818-1895)  Social activist, writer, orator and statesman

James Forten  (1766-1842)  Wealthy Philadelphia businessman, opposed Black colonization, president of American Anti-Slavery Society
Margaretta Forten  (1806-1875), daughter of James, co-founder of Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society

Harriet Forten Purvis   (1810-1875)  formed first bi-racial anti-slavery group, Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society,  URR
Robert Purvis   (1810-1898) 

Charlotte Forten  (1837-1914)  activist, writer - married Francis James Grimske, nephew of Grimske sisters
 
Amos Noë Freeman  (1809-1893)  Presbyterian minister and educator.
Henry Highland Garnet    (1815-1882)  Radical orator, minister, and orator
Frances Harper  (1825-1911)  Poet, author, suffragist, member of Christian Union Temperance Union 
Lewis Hayden  (1811-1899 (ex-slave lecturer, politician, businessman, URR)
 Harriet Jacobs (1813–1897)  Escaped slave, abolitionist speaker. Wrote Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861)
Thomas James  (1804-1891)  Minister, author
Absalom Jones  (1746-1818)  First Black Episcopal clergyman 
Charles Henry Langston   (1817-1892)  Oberlin graduate, jailed in Oberlin rescue
John Mercer Langston  (1829-1897)   Brother of Charles; educator, activist, diplomat, and politician
Toussaint L'Ouverture  (1743-1803)  Former slave, a commander of the Haitian Revolution)
Jermain Wesley Loguen  (1813-1872)  Bishop in AME, author of a slave narrative
Henry Moxley   (1809-1878)  Deacon in the AME Zion church)
John Parker (1827-1900)  Former slave, inventor, industrialist, URR)
Susan Paul   (1809-1841)   Teacher and author
James W.C. Pennington   (107-1870)  author, activist; first Black student admitted to Yale
Mary Ellen Pleasant  (1817-1904)  "Miss Pleasant," wealthy entrepreneur    
Gabriel Prosser   Gabriel's Rebellion, Virginia, 1800
Charles Lenox Remond  (1810-1873)  Orator, worked with Garrison
David Ruggles  (1810-1849)  URR
John Brown Russwurm  (1799-1851)  founder with Samuel Cornish of the abolitionist newspaper, Freedom's Journal, the first paper owned and operated by African Americans.
Dred Scott  (1799-1851) Dred Scott decision, 1858)
Benjamin "Pap" Singleton  (1809-1892) founded Black communities in Kansas
James McCune Smith  (1813-1865)
Lucy Stanton    (1831-1910)  abolitionist, feminist
Austin Steward   (1793-1869)
Maria W. Stewart  (1803-1880)  abolitionist and feminist
William Still  (1821-1902)
Sojourner Truth  (c. 1797-1863)
Harriet Tubman  (1822-1913)
Nat Turner   (1800-1831)
Denmark Vesey  (1767-1822)
David Walker   (1796-1830)
Samuel Ringgold Ward  (1817-1866)  (born into slavery, American)
William Whipper   (1804-1876)
Theodore S. Wright   (1797-1847)

American Abolitionist Groups  

African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME) (founded 1794, Philadelphia, PA)
American Anti-Slavery Society
  (1833)  Bi-racial 
Free African Society  (1787-???)  Philadelphia 
Free Soil Party
Jayhawkers
  (Bleeding Kansas anti-slavery guerillas)  
Liberty Party  (United States, 1840)
Republican Party    (United States)


Foreign Abolitionists and Groups

William Allen (British Quaker)
Thomas Binney (British) Simon Bolivar (Venezuelan) 
Thomas Burchell (British Jamaican)
John Clarkson (British)
Thomas Clarkson (British)
Josiah Conder (British)
John Cropper, Liverpudlian trader and philanthropist, son of James
Samuel Johnson (British)
Joseph Ketley (British)
William Knibb (British)
Thomas Day (British)
Charles Dickens (British)
Ottobah Cugoano (African/British)
Edward James Eliot (British)
Olaudah Equiano former slave taken from modern day Nigeria (British)
Henri Grégoire (French)
David Livingstone (Scottish)
Zachary Macaulay (British)
Karl Marx[38] (German)
Samuel Joseph May (American)
Hannah More (British)
John Newton, former slave merchant (British)
Richard Oastler (British)
James Edward Oglethorpe (English, founder of the Province of Georgia)
Samuel Oughton  (British advocate of black labor rights in Jamaica)
Thomas Paine (British born)
James Ramsay (British)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Genevan-French) 
John Brown Russwurm (Jamaican/American)
Ignatius Sancho (first ex-slave to vote, British)
Arthur Schopenhauer (German philosopher)
Granville Sharp (British)
James Sherman (British)
Granville Sharp (British)
James Sherman (British)
John Smith (British missionary to Demerara, Guyana)
William Smith (British)
Herbert Spencer (British) James Stephen (British lawyer)
James Stephen (son) (British administrator)
George Thompson (British)
Henry Thornton (British) John Harfield Tredgold (British) Josiah Wedgwood (British) produced "Am I Not A Man And A Brother?" anti-slavery medallion
John Wesley (British)
William Wilberforce (British) Leading Parliamentary abolitionist


Foreign Groups:

Royal Navy (British)
Society of the Friends of the Blacks (Société des Amis des Noirs) (French)
The Emancipation Network (International)








 



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